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Here’s How To Spot Chemical Laden Garlic And Harmful Bleach Imported From China
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You presumably don’t have the foggiest idea about this since it is covered up, however the garlic you purchase from supermarket or in the sustenance at eateries is in all probability from China.

THAT’S NOT GOOD AT ALL!
As indicated by one worldwide news source, just about 65,000 tons of crisp, dried, or chilled garlic is transported in to our nation from China… this implies about third of the garlic in USA originates from China.
The pondering thing is that our garlic is not originating from California. 

Expansive sums are being transported in from China! 

The fundamental issue is the nature of the garlic.
The Chinese ranchers are utilizing illicit pesticides for developing the garlic. 

One covert magazine journalist have researched the region where the agriculturists develop garlic and discover that they are utilizing phorate and parathion. 

These two pesticides are restricted by the administration. 

Parathion and phorate are marked DANGEROUSLY TOXIC POISONS.
China’s dirt contamination is likewise a noteworthy concern! 

One authority government report in 2014 demonstrated that fifth of China’s dirt is polluted by perilous overwhelming metals, for example, arsenic and cadmium and quite enormous measures of composts and pesticides.

HERE’S HOW TO SPOT GARLIC FROM CHINA
Everybody ought to reconsider before expending garlic from China. 

It is not sheltered and may bring about significant medical problems. 

Along these lines, whenever when you are purchasing garlic from market, search for these couples of things:
In the event that the garlic has no roots and stem, it is not protected. China merchants remove these parts before transportation.

Safe garlic is more bulbous and heavier. Garlic from China is lighter.
Garlic with wealthier taste is most likely from California. 

As per Food Reference, Chinese garlic apportioned 28 of 40 in brix season estimation while California-developed garlic allotted a 40 of 40.
The best and the most secure approach to ensure you are eating safe garlic is to develop it without anyone else or to get it from nearby rancher.

Garlic from China was sprayed with HIGHLY TOXIC POISONS: a Chinese farmer ostensibly dousing garlic in poisonous pesticides at the rice field in Dawu Village of Hechi City, Guangxi Province.

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China probes 'fake seasoning' producing hub near Tianjin. The products were labelled with brands including Maggi, Knorr, and Nestle.
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The factories were using unapproved ingredients like industrial salt in seasonings including soy sauce and vinegar.

Chinese authorities are investigating nearly 50 factories manufacturing fake versions of widely used food seasonings and sauces.
It comes after Beijing News reportedly uncovered the elaborate operation near the city of Tianjin.
The factories were using unapproved ingredients like industrial salt in seasonings including soy sauce and vinegar, the paper said.
The products were labelled with brands including Maggi, Knorr, and Nestle.
The seasonings, which include spices and chicken stock, are commonly used in Chinese cooking and can be widely found across Asia.
China has been rocked by various food scandals in recent years, with tainted milk powder killing six babies in 2008 and making more than 300,000 children ill.

Unhygienic conditions
The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) said in a statement on Monday evening that it had dispatched officers to Tianjin to investigate the claims.
The Beijing News report said a "fake food seasoning manufacturing hub" had grown unchecked for more than 10 years in the town of Duliu near Tianjin.
Nearly 50 small factories, operating in a residential area, had been churning out fake seasoning estimated to be worth up to a 100m yuan ($14.5m, £12m) per year.
Reporters and local police visited the factories last week, acting on a tip-off from a whistleblower.
Pictures and video taken at the scene show workers making and packaging the products in dirty sheds using homemade equipment like plastic drums and garden hoses.
The factories were said to have used industrial grade salt unsafe for human consumption. 

They also recycled by-products from other food manufacturers, and were seen freely using highly regulated ingredients like the artificial sweetener cyclamate.

'Thoroughly rectify'
Beijing News quoted Nestle's China office as saying that its anti-counterfeit team was looking into the matter, and that "product experts will be helping law enforcement representatives in identifying suspicious products".
Chinese food brands such as Totole and Donggu, whose products were also faked, said they were either assisting investigations or conducting their own probes.
Totole added that it had known about the factories since 2007, and its anti-counterfeit team had conducted numerous crackdowns in Duliu, but had been unable to completely stamp them out.
The sheer scale of the operation revealed in local media shocked a country that is no stranger to food scandals, prompting questions online.
"Shouldn't the CFDA be the one that is punished? A whole village has been faking products for so many years. Can we still trust this department?" said one commenter on the CFDA's Weibo page.
"How many people have been poisoned by these fake products? Seasoning impacts so many lives, this is no game!" said another user.
The Food and Drug Administration said in its statement that it would "thoroughly rectify the problem of fake food seasoning production, and present the results of our investigation to the public in a timely fashion".
In 2014, the Shanghai Husi Food Company, a meat supplier to fast food chains McDonalds and KFC in China, was found to be repackaging old meat.
The following year authorities seized 100,000 tonnes of smuggled meat, some of it more than 40 years old.
Last month Chinese media reported that food suppliers in the north-western city of Shanxi were treating mushrooms with hazardous chemicals to make them look whiter and fresher.

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Nigeria seized China's toxic rice unfit for human consumption

Nigeria caused quite the stir last month after seizing over 102 bags of contaminated rice that had been shipped over from China. 

Following tests, Nigeria's National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said that the rice was "contaminated with micro-organisms above the permissible limit" and unfit for human consumption, according to Nigeria Today.
Nigerian authorities also warned of "several metric tonnes of expired and dangerous rice" that were waiting in warehouses in neighboring countries to be smuggled into Nigeria, and announced that customs would be on high-alert for any imported grains.
Officials have not said where the 102 bags of contaminated rice came from. 

When they were seized in Lagos, a customs officer said that he suspected they had been smuggled in from China.
“Before now, I thought it was a rumour that the plastic rice is all over the country but with this seizure, I have been totally convinced that such rice exists,” a local customs controller told the Nigerian Observer at the time. 

"We have done a preliminary analysis of the plastic rice. After boiling, it was sticky and only God knows what would have happened if people consumed it."
BBC reporter Martin Patience also inspected the rice and said it had "a faint chemical odor."
Last year, plastic rice sold on the Chinese market found its way into various Asian countries, including India, Indonesia and Vietnam. 

While it appeared similar to actual rice, it was actually made from mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and synthetic resin. 

Health experts warned that the fake grains could cause serious damage to the digestive system if consumed.

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Beware, China Is Making Rice from Plastic – Here’s How to Spot It

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Ladies and gentlemen, you’ll be shocked when we tell you about this scary trend, coming out of China! 

Well yes, according to the report, they are apparently making rice out of plastic!

This is very bad, because we all know that plastic is not part of any diet!
According to the experts, the fake rice substitute is being made from sweet potatoes, potatoes and a synthetic resin (aka plastic). 

When the ingredients mix, they form grains that resemble rice. 

It is then sprayed with a chemical fragrance to make it smell like an expensive brand of rice called Wuchang rice.
This means that you should be very careful, because it is really hard to tell the difference between the actual rice and the plastic rice. 

But, don’t worry, because in this article we’re going to show you some tips on how you can be sure your rice is the real deal:

• First option is to soak your rice in water! How this works – well, real rice will sink in a glass of water, and fake rice will float.
• This is also very useful – you can put cooked rice on the counter for several days, if it molds it is real – if no mold forms, it is not real rice.
• Or, you can do this – when you cook your rice, if you notice a thick layer on top of the water, it is probably the fake rice.
• A flame held by fake rice will emit a plastic aroma, and it will burn like plastic would.

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China Is Making Rice From Plastic – Here’s How To Spot It

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The food we consume has a huge impact on our overall health, so we need to extra cautious about what we eat. 

We should make healthier food choices, avoid foods rich in chemicals, as well as too much sugar, cholesterol, or fat.
However, there is another threat coming, as apparently, plastic rice is the newest Chinese trend!
This fake rice is being made of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and a synthetic resin, or plastic. 

The mixture of these ingredients forms grains which are similar to rice.
Therefore, you need to know how to recognize it, and the following tips will help you:

1. The fake rice will form a thick layer on top of the water when cooking.
2. Real rice will sink in a glass of water, while this fake one will float.
3. This fake rice will burn like plastic, and the flame will emit a plastic aroma.
4. If the cooker rice molds when put on the counter for a few days, it is not fake, as the fake rice does not form mold.

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Chemical Weapon for Sale: China's Carfentanil
By ERIKA KINETZ AND DESMOND BUTLER

A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police opens a printer ink bottle containing the opioid carfentanil imported from China, in Vancouver, June 27, 2016.

The United States government is concerned that carfentanil, a powerful opioid that has caused a rash of overdose deaths, could be used as a chemical weapon and has discussed the matter with China, the State Department said Friday in response to an Associated Press investigation.
"Agents like carfentanil could be used in lethal doses that would make them comparable to traditional nerve agents, raising concerns that they could be used as chemical weapons," a State Department official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.
U.S. officials addressed the issue with their Chinese counterparts at the G-20 summit of world leaders in September, and again last week at a scheduled meeting on law enforcement cooperation, the official said.
The AP identified 12 Chinese vendors willing to export carfentanil to the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium and Australia, in quantities that could kill millions of people, no questions asked.
"We can supply carfentanil ... for sure," a saleswoman from Jilin Tely Import and Export Co. wrote in broken English in a September email.
"And it's one of our hot sales product."
Carfentanil is so toxic an amount smaller than a poppy seed can kill a person, but it is not a controlled substance in China.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is also pressing China to blacklist carfentanil, but Beijing has yet to act, leaving a substance whose lethal qualities have been compared with Venomous Agent X, or VX, to flow unabated into foreign markets.
The AP did not actually buy any drugs, or test whether the substances on offer were genuine.
China's Ministry of Public Security did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Carfentanil is 100 times more powerful than fentanyl, a related drug that itself is up to 50 times stronger than heroin.
Carfentanil's only routine use is as an anesthetic for elephants and other large animals.
It burst into view this summer as the latest scourge in an epidemic of opioid abuse that has killed tens of thousands in the U.S. alone.
Since July, there have been 19 deaths related to carfentanil in just the Detroit area, local health officials said Thursday.
On Friday, Canadian health officials announced that carfentanil was found in the bodies of two young men who took lethal overdoses of the drug.
China is the primary source of fentanyls and fentanyl precursors that end up in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, according to a July DEA intelligence brief.
Even as China's carfentanil manufacturers operate openly, efforts to tighten control of fentanyls under the Chemical Weapons Convention are intensifying.
Carfentanil and chemicals like it are already banned from the battlefield under the convention, which came into force in 1997.
Now 24 countries, including Australia, the U.S., Canada and Switzerland, are pushing for discussion on whether the convention could be used to block their use for domestic law enforcement as well.
"We believe these chemicals pose a serious challenge for the convention," the states said in a joint statement in December.
The letter noted "inherent safety risks that include potential long-term health effects."
For decades before being discovered by drug dealers, carfentanil and substances like it were researched as chemical weapons by the U.S., U.K., Russia, Israel, China, the Czech Republic and India, according to publicly available documents.
"It's a weapon," said Andrew Weber, assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs from 2009 to 2014.
"Companies shouldn't be just sending it to anybody."
Forms of fentanyl are suspected in an unsuccessful 1997 attempt by Mossad agents to kill a Hamas leader in Jordan, and were used to lethal effect by Russian forces against Chechen separatists who took hundreds of hostages at a Moscow theater in 2002.
The theater siege prompted the U.S. to develop strategies to counter carfentanil's potential use as a tool of war or terrorism, said Weber.
"Countries that we are concerned about were interested in using it for offensive purposes," he said. "We are also concerned that groups like ISIS could order it commercially."
More recently, dealers discovered that vast profits could be made by cutting fentanyls into illicit drugs.
In fiscal year 2014, U.S. authorities seized just 3.7 kilograms (8.1 pounds) of fentanyl.
This fiscal year, through just mid-July, they seized 134.1 kilograms (295 pounds), Customs and Border Protection data show.
Overdose rates have been skyrocketing.
Delegations of top Chinese and U.S. drug enforcement officials met in August and September to discuss opioids, but failed to produce a substantive announcement on carfentanil.
U.S. lawmakers are also looking for ways of cracking down on illegal imports — though it is unlikely Congress will pass any legislation this year.
Rep. Daniel Donovan, Jr., a Republican from New York, introduced a bill recently that would increase sentences for traffickers of opioids, including carfentanil.
It would also give the DEA power to issue emergency orders to classify new synthetic drugs for higher penalties.
In a statement, Donovan cited the AP investigation.
"We have to get fentanyl and its variants -- especially carfentanil -- and its traffickers off the streets immediately," Donovan said.
"They are, quite literally, killing people every day."
Last October, China added 116 synthetic drugs to its controlled substances list.
Acetylfentanyl, a weak fentanyl variant, was among them.
Several vendors contacted in September were willing to export carfentanil but refused to provide the far less potent acetylfentanyl.
Seven companies, however, offered to sell acetylfentanyl despite the ban.
Five offered fentanyl and two offered alpha-PVP, commonly known as flakka, which are also controlled substances in China.
Several vendors recommended shipping by EMS, the express mail service of state-owned China Postal Express & Logistics Co.
"EMS is a little slow than Fedex or DHL but very safe, more than 99% pass rate," a Yuntu Chemical Co. representative wrote in an email.
EMS declined comment.
A Yuntu representative hung up the phone when contacted by the AP and did not reply to emails.
Soon after, the company's website vanished.